Accident after bachelor party: party guest suffers severe electric shock after climbing
Created: 05/23/2022, 10:18 am
By: Linus Prien
Freight train in a station (symbol image).
© Rüdiger Wölk/IMAGO
After a bachelor party, a guest near Hamburg had a serious accident.
After boarding a freight train, he was electrocuted at 15,000 volts.
Schwarzenbek - At a bachelor party near Hamburg, a young man was electrocuted with 15,000 volts.
As the
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reported, the man was then taken to a clinic by helicopter.
The exact circumstances of what happened are not entirely clear.
15,000 volts represent about 65 times the voltage of standard sockets.
Accident in Schwarzenbek: Why the man got on the freight train remains unclear for the time being
According to information from the
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, it was around 6:15 p.m. when 14 young men were on the platform in Schwarzenbek (Schleswig-Holstein).
According to police investigations, the victim climbed onto a freight train.
According to the information, it is a Munich man.
After the man reached the roof of the train, those present reportedly saw a violent arcing.
The man then fell onto the platform and lay there motionless.
He had to be resuscitated and taken to a hospital.
It is not yet clear why the party guest decided to climb the train.
The police are still evaluating surveillance cameras.
The first surveys of the other party guests could not clarify the question until now.
Federal police spokesman: "Proximity to railway overhead lines is sufficient for power flashover"
According to the
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, the federal police spokesman Christian Bertz said with regard to the events in Schwarzenbek: "The proximity to the overhead railway lines is enough for a power flashover.
The railway overhead line does not have to be touched for this.
The dangers emanating from railway overhead lines are therefore not visible.
If the distance to the railway overhead line is less than 1.50 meters, this means playing with your life!"
Accidents of this kind happen again and again. In November 2020, two young people, also in Schleswig-Holstein, died from an electric shock on the train.
Similar accidents occurred in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.
(LP)